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Thursday, 28 September 2017

My view on Snow White

In reply to the question "Was Snow White bad?" here is my reply.No she
wasn’t bad. Snow White was a young princess who was destined to die. She
eventually died but was brought back to life again from a kiss. There
is a lot more to Snow-White because the tale itself is extremely old. It
goes back to pre-Christian times.

Snow White
is a tale of an immortal, perhaps a goddess, who wakes from the dead or
long periods of sleep as it may be. There are ancient myths of young
goddesses who return to the earth after disappearing for a while. In
such stories, Persephone was stolen and disappeared in the underworld.
She returned to the earth every Spring.

There
is also Easter origins and the goddess Eostre/Ostarra, who appears to
Midgard (land of humans) after a while. Sleeping goddesses or “dead”
goddesses wake up after a cycle has passed. Then they return to sleep or
the underworld again, only to come back again.

Snow White could be based on such a combination of these ancient young
goddess myths. Another sleeping/dead princess is “Sleeping Beauty”.
Woken by a prince, a warrior or hero. Again the archytype of those
princes waking up these magical princesses from death sleep is like
Sigurd the dragon slayer waking up the sleeping dead Valkyrie.

So no,
Snow White isn’t “bad” or evil. She’s the Maiden aspect of the Goddess.
There are many goddess maidens found in all European myths, such as
Persephone, Eostre, Artemis, Skadi, Athena, Valkyries, Iris, ect. who
inspire modern girls. All those Disney princesses are the Divine
Maidens, goddess girls, who’s stories have ancient origins to begin
with.